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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Sierra Leone	Canada	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,736	30,510	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,809	30,796	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,043	31,132	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,287	31,473	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,466	31,758	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,602	32,055	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,708	32,360	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,818	32,688	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,918	33,007	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	283	5,023	33,367	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	285	5,132	33,750	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	286	5,246	34,127	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	287	5,364	34,463	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,486	34,839	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,613	35,209	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,744	35,565	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,879	35,831	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	291	6,019	36,239	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	292	6,163	36,677	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	293	6,312	37,198	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	294	6,461	37,736	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,611	38,174	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,761	38,383	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,910	38,685	1,330

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Sierra Leone, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.